Resumen:
Graphs are a natural way of modeling connections among Web pages in a network or people according to a criteria like friendship, co-authorship, etc. Many algorithms that compute and infer interesting facts out of these networks work directly over these graphs. Some examples of this are Connected components, HITS, PageRank, spamdetection, among others. In social networks, graph mining also enables the study of populations behavior. Successful graph mining not only enables segmentation of users but also prediction of behavior. Link analysis and graph mining remains an area of high interest and development.
These human-generated graphs are growing at an amazing pace, and their representation in main memory, secondary memory, and distributed systems are getting more and more attention. Furthermore, space-efficient representations for these graphs have succeeded at exploiting regularities that are particular to the domain. In the case of Web graphs the main properties exploited are the locality of reference, skewed in/out-degree, and similarity of adjacency lists among nodes of the same domain. In social networks, there is a tendency towards forming cliques in the network.